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I'm not entirely sure what this is except that it's the theme song to one of my favorite cartoon shows… […]
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Ask ME: Jack Kirby's P.O. Box
Pat Kelly wrote to ask… I saw a partial reprint of the DC First Issue Special where Jack Kirby created the new Manhunter. It had a very intriguing all-text last panel: "Want to see the clash between Manhunter and The Hog? If so, write and tell us! MANHUNTER / P.O. Box 336 / Newbury Park, […]
FACT CHECK: Seven or Eight Wars
I don't know what Trump's so upset about. I didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize either and I've never bombed anyone or sent armed troops into American cities. If you want to know why he's claiming what he's claiming, Mark Hertling explains what happened with those seven wars and why the seven "peaces" of which […]
TiVo, R.I.P.
The folks who make TiVos have announced they are no longer making TiVos. There are articles all over the 'net (like this one) that try to explain wha' happened to their marketplace but it seems to me they were done in by two factors. One was that almost every cable company in the world decided […]
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Here's one of my favorite Monty Python bits. I seem to be the only person on this planet who remembers that once — a long time ago, before most of America knew of Python — this video was used on The Dean Martin Show. As I recall it — and it's been a long time […]
FACT CHECK: Almost Every Syllable He Utters
Once upon a time, the Republican Party branded a man named Al Gore a "congenital liar" and therefore unfit to be President because he claimed that the main characters in the book Love Story were based on himself and his wife. And it didn't matter one bit that the truth was that (a) Gore hadn't […]
My Gastric Bypass – Part 7
This is the seventh (!) in a series of what I can now say with some (but not total) certainty will be an eight-part recounting of the gastric bypass operation that I underwent in 2006. I suggest reading the earlier chapters before you read this one: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 […]
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Most folks know of Rocky and Bullwinkle but are unaware that the show on which Moose and Squirrel were first featured was called Rocky and His Friends. It's the form in which I first discovered those characters and the wonderful world of Jay Ward and Bill Scott. The video below is a complete half-hour episode […]
Today's Video Link
I may put a few of these up today to make up for a paucity of them here recently. This is the episode of the game show I've Got a Secret for March 25, 1963 which someone just posted to YouTube — and by "just," I mean less than a half-hour before I noticed it […]
More Mark is Out Plugging His Book!
The folks at IGN say "The Essential Peanuts Is the Ultimate Book for Hardcore Snoopy Fans." While over at AIPT, they interview Mark Evanier on curating 75 years of story magic for The Essential Peanuts. Comic Book Club Live quotes Mark Evanier On Essential Peanuts: "Most Of Us Have A Lucy Or Linus Or A […]
Wednesday Morning
Thanks to all who sent Best Book Birthday Wishes yesterday to note the release of one of my favorite things I've ever done. If you're a follower of this blog, you know how rare it is me to "plug" something with which I was involved. I save it for things like this. A long list […]
Mark is Out Plugging His New Book!
Over on Comic Book Resources, Brian Cronin and I have a brief chat at why Peanuts has been part of our lives so long that there had to be a seventy-fifth anniversary edition. […]
Attention, CVS Pharmacy!
I dearly appreciate your ongoing concern for my health but I got my flu shot at my doctor’s office. I don’t need a text message every twenty minutes reminding me that you have them available. Thank you. […]
Mushroom Soup Monday
Consider this a Head's Up! that the coming week will, like the last few days here, have a few less posts than usual. The long ones like the saga of my 2006 Gastric Bypass Surgery take longer to write and I'm also immersed in publicity stuff for my new book. It may already be obtainable […]
My Gastric Bypass – Part 6
This is the sixth in a series of I'm-thinking-two-or-three-more-but-don't-hold-me-to-this parts about a gastric bypass operation that I underwent in 2006. To read the first part, click here, to read the second part, click here, to read the third part, click here, to read the fourth part, click here and to read the fifth part, click […]